Community Health Officer

Job Description

Title: Community Health Officer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline
∎ Post Graduate in Social Science discipline

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Facilitate advocacy meetings and awareness raising sessions at the community level with community health workers.
∎ Work with the community health coordinator to develop monthly work plans for the community health workers.
∎ Participate in community-level data collection and other M&E activities as necessary under the guidance of the community health coordinator
∎ Collect and compile project data regularly; submission of data and narrative report to DSO and Health Program Manager including case studies, success stories and photographs of facilities.
∎ Train community health workers with support from the Health Program Officer
∎ Provide inputs for donor requirements for data collection and reporting for health grants
∎ Ensure program targets are met through implementation of community health activities.
∎ Ensure the community based activities such as EPI, case finding/screening, clinic referrals, health education and defaulter tracing are done properly.
∎ Actively participate in the identification and management of any disaster or epidemics.
∎ Serve as health focal point for service area as required.
∎ Build the capacity of community health workers through proper coaching and training.
∎ Maintain liaison with other key stakeholders for the smooth running of services as appropriate.
∎ Keeping all documents updated and providing DSO/Supervisor/ health coordinator.
∎ Train the CHWs for periodic development. Continue with refresher trainings.
∎ Supportive supervision for the CHWs.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ At least three years' experience in a similar position.
∎ Experience in health promotion, program coordination or community health work.
∎ Ability to train and supervise staff and prioritize competing tasks.
∎ Previous experience managing staff is essential.
∎ Knowledge of developing BCC and IEC material and working experience in the field of SBCC is essential for CHO position
∎ Knowledge of local language is an asset.
∎ English language proficiency is required.
∎ Computer literacy with Ms word, MS Excel and power point

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.

Application Deadline: January 28, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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